Acknowledgements
The volume you hold in your hands, as you will see in the introduction, constitutes a selection from a successful online conference held during the pandemic. As editors, we would like to express our gratitude to all those who participated at that time for their enthusiasm and interest, which undoubtedly served as a driving force in our decision to proceed with this book.
We are deeply grateful to Brill for their warm reception of our project, especially considering the tremendous difficulty in presenting a collaborative volume with a coherent thread. Specifically, we would like to acknowledge our first stage with Liesbeth Hugenholtz, who kindly guided our initial steps, and later with Ivo Romein, who patiently endured all our numerous questions and delays.
This book would not have been possible without the funding from Spains’s Ministry of Science and Innovation, as it is part of the results of the project co-directed by both editors, dedicated to the study of antiquities forgeries in 18th-century Rome (I+D+I PID2020-117326GB-I00 (MICINN): FAKE- The Endurance of Deception: Forgery of Antiquities in 18th-Century Rome).
We must also acknowledge the generosity of all the authors, many of whom personally covered the costs of image rights and language revisions. We owe a debt of gratitude to each one of them for their altruistic participation in this editorial project. Thank you for your contribution and trust; this book is what it is thanks to you.